Device for attracting flies.



No. 870,740. PATBNTBD JAN. 14, 1900.

B. W. SIMS.

DEVICE FOR ATTRAGTING ELIES.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 1s. 1907.

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BENJAMIN W. SIMS, OF WAXAHACHIE, TEXAS.

DEVICE FOR ATTRACTIN G FLIES.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN W. SIMS, a citizen of the United States,residing at VVaxahachie, in the county of Ellis and State of Texas, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Devices for Attracting Flies, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for attracting flies and one of theprincipal objects of the same is to provide a rotating bait holdermounted on a casing provided With a partition having apertures thereinWhich lead into a light chamber so that the flies will seek the lightand will pass from the dark into the light chamber.

Another object of the invention is to provide a bait support consistingof a shaft having a series of radial bait supports secured thereto andmeans for constantly rotating said bait supports so that flies lightingthereon Will be deposited in the dark compartment and from which theyWill pass to a light chamber provided with a sliding top and glass end.

These and other objects may be attained by means of the constructionillustrated. in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure l is a planview of a device for attracting flies made in accordance With myinvention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a centrallongitudinal section of the same.

Referring to the drawing for a more specific description of myinvention, the numeral 1 designates a box or casing provided With apartition 2, said partition having openings 3 therein and said partitiondividing the box to provide a trap compartment 4 and a light compartment5, said compartment 5 having a sliding top 6 provided with a handle 7and a glass end 8 secured to said cover 6 and adapted to slide inkeepers in the side edges of the casing.

A shaft 9 journaled on the upper edge of the casing is provided withfour radially disposed Wire bails, said Wire bails being secured to theshaft 9. Connected to the bails 10 are bait holders 11 comprisingperforated plates and intermediate the bait holders are wings 12comprising imperforate plates. Connected to the shaft 9 is a gear wheel13 Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 18. 1907. Serial No. 392.777.

Patented Jan. 14, 190s.v

which meshes With a gear wheel 14 mounted on a shaft 15 journaled in theside of the casing 1 and a convolute spring 16 surrounds the shaft 15and is secured at one end thereto While the opposite end is secured tothe gear wheel 14. A combined escapement verge 17 and a pendulum 18 ispivoted at 1.9 to the side of the casing, the pendulum being providedwith a Weighted end 20. The ends of the shaft 9 are provided Withsuitable enlargements 21 by means of which the spring 16 may be wound.v

The operation of my invention may be briefly described as follows:-Whenthe spring 16 has been Wound and the bait applied to the opposite sidesof the tWo bait holders 11 and the pendulum set in motion the baitholders will slowly revolve until the flies will be carried into thechamber 4 from which they will seek an outlet through the light openings8 into the light chamber 5 from which they can be removed from time totime by sliding the cover 6.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed as new, is 2- 1. Adevice for attracting flies comprising a casing, a shaft mounted torotate in said casing, radially disposed bait holders secured to saidshaft, means for rotating said shaft and bait holders, a partition insaid casing provided With openings and providing a 'chamber at one sideof said partition, said chamber having a Window and a removable cover.

2. A device for attracting flies comprising a casing having a partitiontherein, said partition being provided with openings, a shaft mounted torotate on the upper edge of said casing, bait holders carried by saidshaft, Wings carried by said shaft at right angles to said bait holders,means for rotating said bait holders and Wings, and a sliding coverhaving a Window attached thereto, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

BENJAMIN W. SIMS.

Vitnesses:

T. J. FRrERsoN, R. B. ROUNTREE.

